Improved folding chair



dntrd Stairs THOMAS BABBITT oo-MINS, Jn.,

OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 98,7 43,l dated J w1-nary 1l, 1870.

IMPROVED FOLDING CHAIR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and mak-ing part of the same To all persons to whom these presents 'may come Be it known that I, THOMAS BABBITT GoMrNs, Jr., of Lowell, ofthe county of Middlesex, and State of Mas saohnsetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Folding Chair; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation,

Figure 2, a front view, and

Figure 3, a. vertical section of one of my improved chairs.

In such drawings- Adenotes a rectangular frame, composed of two parallel bars, a a, and two transverse connection-bars, b c.

Two legs, B B', are hinged at their upper ends to the two bars b c, there being one of the legs directly behind each of the said bars, and these legs, near their lower ends, are connected by a transverse bnr, d.

Furthermore, there is pivoted to each ot' the legs,

`at about two-thirds of its altitude, one of a pair of bars, C C,'which extend between the bars a a.

Near their frontl ends, the twovbars C C are connected by :t transverse bar, e.

Each of' the bars C O has a series of notches, f f f,

rnade in it, from itslower edge, they being to latch the bar upon one of two pins, g, projected from the bars A strip of cloth, D, to constitute the .seat and back of the chair, is fixed at its upper end to the'upper cross-bar b of the frame A, and also at its lower end to the cross-bar e of the latching-bars C C.

The above construction of a chair not only enables its parts to be folded togetherlin a small compa-ss, but

admits of the back being inclined to different positions, or to be so depressed as to bring a sitter into a recumbent one, as may be desirable.. l

The hinges of the legs are shown at h h in gs. l`

and 3, one of the pivots ofthe latcbing-bars C C being represented at i in iig. 3 of the dra-wings.

I claim the above-described chair-frame, as composed of the frame A, the legs B B', the two latchingbars C C', the pins g, and the bar e,.arranged and applied together, and to the strip or cloth I), in manner and so as to operate vas described.

THOMAS B. COMINS, JR.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

